Void and Devoid- The new way of living…

shunya.rudra.1
Sep 8, 2018 · 5 min read
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Void and devoid, the two terms often misinterpreted for being antonyms, which they aren’t.

Void means completely empty and Devoid means free form.

The nature of one’s soul are these two words, you are basically nothing, in scientific terms, it’s energy; in my philosophy, I call it being void and devoid.

We get too much involved in defining our inner-self and posing out the outer body, however, in reality nothing of it constitutes what you actually are. The word portray mustn’t exist in one’s image. Start looking at yourself as this big hollow, ready to swallow everything up but nothing to throw out. You surely can go inside to look out for what you hold within, in case you find something relevant in life or might feel like sharing up a bit, but stop pulling yourself up with all those things. Stop giving yourself the image of everything you consume, because it’s a world of proxies and at some point whatever you have been fed is done with a little touch of falseness.

Am I asking you to stop defining yourself in life? No. Not at all. Every person in this world must hold a definition for him/her-self, but one must have the liquidity to enter into the definition opposite to his/her. Being devoid is the art of fitting into situations that are exact opposites of what one expected to put oneself in.

Realizing what you require is how you live, realizing why others don’t require what you do, is how you let others live. Having an opinion is a good thing, but standing too strong over it is being blind to all the remaining facts of the topic you build an opinion on. This world follows majority, and majority is a falsehood. What’s right today, wasn’t right in the past or might not stay right in the future and vice versa. For instance, in past killing was a glorious thing to do, today it’s a crime. Now the argument holds absolutely true that we have made a code so that people don’t lose their loved ones and blah blah blah. But I’m not here trying to justify killing here, I’m telling you the shift of majority. It’s fluid. Opposite to what people are trying to do today, they become rigid, denying the existence of the other side of the coin that they don’t like. Am I asking you to be tolerant? At some point it’s similar to that, however, the exact simple words for being devoid is, understand why the others don’t understand what you do.

Coming to the first word of title, VOID. Void means completely empty, however what I’m trying to establish here isn’t the literal meaning of void. For me, void is a whole new dimension. For a relatable instance, look at our universe. I say, universe is a void, it’s empty. Its too big to be even considered even a little bit full. Yet, we all know, universe isn’t empty. All the galaxies, planets and what not, exist in it. Maybe now you might be able to picture what a void is, and that’s what every person must become. Am I forcing my thoughts on you? Absolutely not. I’m just giving an ideology. Being devoid is understanding the existence of others, being void is understanding your own. Being void signifies, relating to everything that is occurring yet staying unrelated to it all.

Void is this big box which signifies the meaning of being devoid. You stack up this void with each and everything that being devoid offers to you and then you make space for your own self in it. And don’t worry if you feel a full stomach in there, all you have to do is too look up for the space of dessert, which always exist and you’ll find out that you are still hungry. Remain hungry, or else you are ready to die anytime you want.

Combining these two terms gives rise to a new vision of life. We perceive everything from these two eyes that we have been gifted. Does any third eye exist? Well lots of people say it does, I say being void and devoid is the path of opening this third view. This third view where you stop looking at everything from your own perception and make yourself a part of the picture too. Stop looking at yourself as ‘I’, and start stating yourself as some ‘it’, just the same way you do for others. Try perceiving yourself as some other, and realize the whole scenario, that’s the true meaning of being void and devoid. Pulling yourself out of your body, and putting yourself on a platform, from where you can watch everything happen, even yourself. Finding this new dimension makes you what you are supposed to be. Looking at the bigger picture and finding how every effort was an act of vanity, putting yourself in all those vague scenarios, all this struggle for redemption and finally seeing how easy it was to get detached and yet you didn’t, lurking for connections; while the real happiness existed in being disconnected to it all and still feeling connected to it all. The real happiness, in being void and devoid…

A small excerpt to sum up all I have said, and picture it all in a better vision…

Void and Devoid

Eccentric I stood
Void and devoid
Among-st my physical; and my astral

The horizon… silent
The sea…numb
The sky…blue
And my forms
Intimidating the coral life

Waves splashed
But I stood dry
The scorching sun
The cold sand
And the dark night sky
All together
All mixed
All confused
Not to forget astonished
Quarreling the intrigued presence

Whilst the hot me
The cold me
the dark me
the dry me; The two dry me
Under the splashing water; God damn that splashing infiltrating water
Stood…void…devoid
And eccentric
Grasping to exist, puffing
Puffing the excruciation of infinity

Thus enters the humor
Gloomy, shady, comprehending but untrained and insensitive

Sooner or later the curtain fell
The melancholy audience rose and descended the hallway
The hallway of proxies

And thence ended
THE ACT OF OCCULT

shunya.rudra.1

I love vagueness in life and I’m a follower of Shiva, I define void, and try to find out how its relatable and yet unrelated to my own self…

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